DIBELS Paper

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What does DIBELS stand for? DIBELS stands for Dynamic Indications of Basic Early Literacy Skills. DIBELS is a short, one minute fluency test that evaluates the development of early reading skills amongst students in grades one and two. These tests are one-on-one, which helps to provide individualized instruction. DIBELS focuses on areas where students need assistance. These tests are taken three times in a school year; in the beginning, middle, and end. For first grade students, the test is broken down into four parts: the letter naming fluency, phonemic segmentation, nonsense word fluency, and oral reading fluency. Second grade students only take the oral reading fluency section of the test. The creator of DIBELS, Ruth A. Kaminski, “emphasizes that DIBELS is not designed to improve students’ reading abilities by itself” (Dessoff, 2007). According to the textbook, DIBELS assessment was …show more content…

According to (Hollowell, n.d.), “schools that administer these tests use the results to inform teacher about student progress and skills that need to be re-taught.” Once the teacher receives the scores, he or she can lesson plan accordingly. The teacher can decide whether she needs to incorporate differentiated instruction to grab the students’ attention. The teacher can also begin grouping students together based on their scores. For instance, students with low reading scores will be in one group, students with average reading scores will be in another group, and students with high reading scores will be in the last group. The overall class DIBELS results allows the teacher to plan lessons accordingly, which will help improve the overall DIBELS scores for every before the next assessment. Progress monitoring assessments are not for everyone; only for students who scored below average. These results allow teachers to decide if the student is showing growth. If not, instruction will be readjusted to hopefully improve

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